[cripplecreek]

We could be in Afghanistan for a thousand years and the savages will still end up in control.

[Future Snake Eater]

We could be in Afghanistan for a thousand years and the savages will still end up in control.

Only if we maintained the status quo. If we got a lot more aggressive, we'd likely pacify a significant chunk of that place. That would have to extend into Pakistan, too, of course.

[ilovesarah2012]

I don’t think those people can be civilized.

[cloudmountain]

We could be in Afghanistan for a thousand years and the savages will still end up in control.

So true, but what do you expect of people whose main crop/industry is the heroin poppy?

[Iron Munro]

We could be in Afghanistan for a thousand years and the savages will still end up in control.

-- George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"